Rimsky Yuen, Hong Kong’s secretary for justice, and Lai Tung-kwok, the secretary for security, traveled to Beijing for meetings on Tuesday with Guo Shengkun, the Chinese minister of public security, about the booksellers’ case and the mechanism for informing Hong Kong about the detention of residents in the mainland.

The Beijing authorities said that Mr. Lam had admitted that he and others had collected more than 400,000 renminbi, or about $60,000, selling banned books to customers in mainland China, and that he violated the conditions of his parole by not returning there, the Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK reported. If he does not return, he could face harsher penalties, the mainland authorities said.

The mainland authorities also released a video of Mr. Lam confessing, RTHK reported.

Hong Kong does not have an extradition agreement with the mainland. Mr. Lam said during his news conference that he had no plans to return there. [Source]

The central government in Beijing agreed to begin talks last week to review the decade-old mechanism, under which the Hong Kong authorities should be notified by their Guangdong Province counterparts within 14 days when a Hongkonger is detained on the mainland, and vice versa. But the Hong Kong government only received notification months after Lam’s detention.

The officials in the group include the Secretary for Justice, the Secretary for Security, the Director of Immigration, the acting Police Commissioner and the Commissioner of Customs and Excise. They will fly back on Tuesday night.

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said they will meet with the mainland’s Public Security Bureau and the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, “to make preliminary discussions to further improve the notification mechanism.” [Source]